玛丽拉（伊丽莎白·泰勒 Elizabeth Taylor 饰）是一位在行业内声名显赫的电影明星，在一场宴会上，一起死亡事件的发生让她陷入了危险的境地。原来，死者死于一杯毒酒，而这杯毒酒本应被玛丽拉饮下。警方迅速介入了调查，随着线索的展开，玛丽拉的丈夫杰森（洛克·哈德森 Rock Hudson 饰）成为了终点怀疑对象。 不幸的是，事情并没有就此终结，神秘的匿名电话，诡异的敲诈字条，在巨大的压力之下，玛丽拉的精神迅速濒临着崩溃的边缘。杰森真的是凶手吗？又是谁对玛丽拉有着如此的深仇大恨呢？聪明的马普尔小姐（安吉拉·兰斯伯瑞 Angela Lansbury 饰）看出了其中的端倪，她能够顺利解决这一案件吗？
The Doll is an adaptation of the novel, The Doll (novel) by Bolesław Prus, which is regarded by many as one of the finest Polish novels ever written and, along with Pharaoh (novel), made Bolesław Prus a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. The influence of Émile Zola is evident, and some have compared the novel to Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; both were Prus's contemporaries. The movie, however, may be more compared to Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, (The Red and the Black). The Doll constitutes a panorama of life in Warsaw between 1878 and 1879, and at the same time is a subtle story of three generations of Polish idealists, their psychological complications, their involvement in the history of the nineteenth century, social dramas, moral problems and the experience of tragic existence. At the same time this story describes the disintegration of social relationships and the growing separation of a society whose aristocratic elite spreads the models of vanity and idleness. In the bad air of a backward country, anti-Semitic ideas are born, valuable individuals meet obstacles on their way, and scoundrels are successful. This poetic love story follows a nouveau riche merchant, Stanislaw Wokulski, through a series of trials and tribulations occasioned by his obsessive passion for an aristocratic beauty, Izabela Lecka, played by the famous Polish actress, Beata Tyszkiewicz. Plot As a descendant of an impoverished Polish noble family, young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter at Hopfer's, a Warsaw restaurant, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed 1863 Uprising against Tsarist Russia, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. On eventual return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman at Mincel's haberdashery. Marrying the late owner's widow (who eventually dies), he comes into money and uses it to set up a partnership with a Russian merchant he had met while in exile. The two merchants go to Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, and Wokulski makes a fortune supplying the Russian Army. The enterprising Wokulski now proves a romantic at heart, falling in love with Izabela, daughter of the vacuous, bankrupt aristocrat, Tomasz Łęcki. In his quest to win Izabela, Wokulski begins frequenting theatres and aristocratic salons; and to help her financially distressed father, founds a company and sets the aristocrats up as shareholders in his business.The indolence of these aristocrats, who secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his help (in secret) to Izabela's impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection. In the end she consents to accept him, but without true devotion or love.(wikipedia)
比尔（杰里米•希尔伯德 Jeremy Theobald 饰）是个游手好闲的作家，借跟踪陌生人打发时间。这让他体验到形形色色的人生，很神秘，也很刺激。不过，有一次，比尔盯上了一个西服革履的家伙克布（艾利克斯•浩尔 Alex Haw 饰）。尾随到餐厅之后，他却被对方识破，只得摊牌。克布是个贩卖盗版光碟的商贩，此外还做拧门撬锁的勾当。克布带着比尔潜入了陌生人家中，但比尔发现克布根本不取财物，而是寻找主人蓄意掩盖的隐私。同时，克布还提醒比尔要注意仪表。后来，比尔认识了一个神秘的金发女人（露西•拉塞尔 Lucy Russell 饰）。在酒吧，比尔主动与她调情，但是对方冷若冰霜。原来她是黑社会大佬的女人，但是不可遏制的激情让比尔失去了理智，从而堕入了万劫不复的深渊……
